Car
Industry Competiton and Practice Project
The
car industry has been a central place for the development of
manufacturing techniques and represents a major area of study. As well
as describing the development of advanced techniques such as JIT, MRP
and TQM, the project has also studied alliances, and the new product
development proces.
- “The Unravelling of Manufacturing Best-Practice Strategies,” Chapter 12 in C. Smith, B. McSweeney, and R. Fitzgerald, (eds.) Remaking Management: Between Global and Local, Cambridge University Press (2008).
- “Inventive
Concentration: An Analysis of Fuel Cell Patents,” with C.Liston-Heyes, Science
and Public Policy, (2004). Vol. 31, No. 1, p.15-25.
- “Extending
Simultaneous Engineering: Electric Vehicle Supply Chains and New
Product
Development”, with R.Dyerson, International Journal of Technology
Management, (2002) Vol.23, Nos.1/2/3, pp. 74-88.
- “International
Joint Ventures: Dependency in Manufacturing and Design”, International
Journal of Operations and Production Management (1999) Vol.19,
No.5/6, pp.
460-473.
- “Manufacturing
Strategy Regained: Evidence for the Demise of Best-Practice”, California
Management Review, (1998) Vol. 41, No.1, pp.31-42.
- “The Fit and
Misfit of Technological Capability: Responses to Vehicle Emission
Regulation in
the
- “Learning
from
Joint Venture: The Rover-Honda Relationship”, Business History,
Vol. 38,
No. 1, (1996) pp. 90-114.
“Manufacturing Methods: Lessons from the Japanese Motor Industry”, Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, (1996) pp.163-168. - “Japanese
Production Strategies and Competitive Success: Mazda's Quiet
Revolution”, Journal
of Far Eastern Business, Vol. 1 No. 4, (1995) pp.15-35.
- Transforming
Rover, Renewal Against the Odds, 1981-94, (1996), Bristol Academic Press,
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